Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.